Assessment of ejaculate quality and sperm characteristics in turkeys: sperm mobility phenotype is independent of time.

doi:10.1093/ps/77.11.1711

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Assessment of ejaculate quality and sperm characteristics in turkeys: sperm mobility phenotype is independent of time.

Poultry science - 1 Nov 1998

Holsberger D R, Donoghue A M, Froman D P, Ottinger M A

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Given a pool of genetically superior male turkeys, the subsequent selection of toms as semen donors for artificial insemination should be based upon criteria that are predictive of the tom's fertility and fecundity over the course of a production cycle. Recently, sperm mobility phenotype has been...

Topics

Animals
Cell Membrane
Cell Survival
Flow Cytometry
Male
Phenotype
Semen
Sperm Motility
Spermatozoa
Time Factors
Turkeys

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